'Jammu Kashmir Human Rights Commission' - 5 News Result(s)

India has rejected a statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein after he called on India to allow an international mission to visit Kashmir. Speaking at the UN, the commissioner said, "We had received reports, and continue to do so, claiming Indian authorities had used force excessively against the civilian populat...

More than 500 families of missing persons in Jammu and Kashmir are filing cases before the state Human rights panel seeking that DNA tests be conducted on the thousands of unmarked graves in the state.
This comes after the J&K government refused to exhume bodies in unmarked graves in north Kashmir and carry out DNA profiling to ascertain their ide...

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Centre and the Jammu & Kashmir Government over the allegations of a fake encounter in Poonch. One of the so-called 'Lashkar militants' killed in an encounter on Monday, turned out to be Ashok Kumar, a civilian resident of Poonch and not a militant.